Introduction to Theory: Karl Marx
Money on the Left
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Private Property
He's very concerned about just using society as an empty abstraction. Even if he's much more so than margaret thatcher, the prime minister of england from the late seventies through the eighties. Here he's saying, private production for private profit and private consumption, what it does to the ediate sensuous particularity of the individual. So then he says, just as private property is only the perceptible expression of the fact that man becomes objective for himself, at the same time becomes a strange and inhuman object.
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